Bifurcated garment.



P. F. LEWIS.

BIFURCATED GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. s, 1908.

91 3,741. Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

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FRANK F. LEWIS, OF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO LEWIS KNITTING COMPANY,

OF .TANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

BIFURCATED GARMENT.

Specfcation'of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application led April 9, `1908. Serial No. 426,051.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it own that I, FRANK F. LEWIS, of Janesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Bifurcated Garments; an 'I do hereby declare the followingr t0 be a full, clear, andl exact description of the invention, such as vwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to' make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in bifurcated garments, such as union suits of underwear'and similar arments designed for wear about the trunk, liips and thighs.

The object of the invention is to provide a bifurcated garment with a falling seat portion formed continuous with the main portions of the garment, and with this object in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and relative arrangement ofparts as will hereinafter be described and pointed out in the claims.

Inthezaccompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in rear elevation of a bifureated garment embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 illustrates a detached view of the legs and A,falling seat sections, and Fig. 3 is a detached view of the seat gusset.

1 represents the main body of the garment which may be made of tubular knitted or flat knitted fabric in the usual manner and of any desired material. The back portion 2 of the trunk or body portiion is extended downwardly from the shoulders to the length desired for the shirt portion, its lower endbeing indicated by the dotted line 3, 4. The back portion of the lower part of th(x garment is composed of the two main pieces 5, 6, illustrated in Fig. 2, which are united to the front portion by the usual outer and inner leg seams 7, 8. 'lhe usual diamond shaped seat gusset 9 may or may not be inserted at the crotch as desired, and the inner edges 10, 11, of the back pieces 5, 6, are brought together and united thus forming the vertical back seam 12, of the falling seat portion 13, which latter, when the garment 1s worn is drawn up over the lower end of the shirt portion and about the seat and hips of the wearer and is secured in place by buttons 14, 'at or near the waist line or any A other suitable means for detachably securing the falling seat in place may be employed. By bringing together the edges 10 and 11 of the pieces 5 6 and uniting them, it insures the desired fullness to the falling seat portion without the usual extension of the seat gusset and the undesirable seams attending such construction. This construction also results in narrowing the width of the falling seat flap' at its to and consequently fewer buttons or other evices are required to detachably secure it to the main body of the garment.

The above results are due to the shape of the edges 10 and 11 of the pieces 5 and 6, which are so constructed and shaped 'as to diverge and diagonally cross the wale of the fabric of the pieces 5 and 6 in such manner that when both pieces are sewed together above the forks at edges 1() and 11 to form the flap or drop seat the wale of the fabric composing the upper portions of the pieces 5 and 6 shall converge to said vertical back seam 12, and be in a line diagonal to the wale of the fabric of the back portion 2, Fig. 1.

lIaving fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. A garment of the class described having a drop seat made continuous with the rear leg portions, the upper portions of the latter having diagonal edges drawn together and united thereby forming a drop seatof the desired fullness said drop seat being narrower at its point of attachment to the body at the waist line than at the seat line, sub stantially as set forth.

2. A garment of the class described, having a drop seat made continuouswith the rear leg portions, the portions above theseat fork being so shaped that when drawn together and secured by a vertical seam, the rib or Wale of the fabric of such portions above the seat fork shall converge to the said vertical seam so uniting them, substantially as set forth.'

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- 

